My Boat Works

Safe dinghy anchoring is a little known subject and lost dinghies are the norm. Here is a solid basis for understanding the forces and necessary equipment and some of my favorite creative dinghy anchoring methods.

Here is how to use your anchor to haul your boat off a shoal and careen it. I also bring up a few other ideas, good and bad, for discussion.

Here are proven techniques for anchoring in rough weather I have used successfully, the special challenges rough weather anchoring brings and the pros and cons of the larger decisions.

If you can’t retrieve your anchor, here are some ways you can coax it up anyway. More importantly, I’ll also show you how to avoid getting your anchor stuck or lost almost all the time.

Here are techniques I use to stabilize boats at anchor, as well as a framework for understanding why and how boats rock and roll at anchor. Yawing and sailing at anchor are dealt with in the Rough Weather Anchoring article.

Here are methods I’ve used for years that work great for finding that sweet patch of calm water to keep your boat steady and quietly at anchor – Often when boats around are rocking and swinging wildly.

In this article, I’ll show you how to set an anchor, then how to set the basic configurations of anchors and why you’ll use one anchoring technique or another.

Here is how you can safely, effectively and as easily as possible handle line and chain while anchoring.

How to safely and easily move, organize and handle your anchors and rodes on deck.

Scams and deceptions involved with selling anchors exposed and disproved

A common-sense, forthright, professional discussion of the primary four  legitimate ocean anchor types, with framework of understanding their purpose, benefits, problems.